Week in Photos: Jan. 21-25, 2013

A Bahraini Shiite Muslim leads a group of anti-government protesters at a rally in the streets of Ma’ameer aganst proposed peace talks.

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Workers put the finishing touches on the Bartonsville Bridge in Rockingham, Vt. Its predecessor, built in 1870, was swept away by the Williams River during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.

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Zambian goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene celebrates after scoring on a penalty kick against Nigeria during their African Cup match in Nelspruit, South Africa.

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An Egyptian protester carries an injured boy away from clouds of tear gas near Tahrir Square in Cairo. Rallies marked two years since the uprising that ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

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Brian Jenkins works to clear off his ice-encased truck outside his Bowling Green, Ky., home.

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Indian women hoist knives, distributed by India’s Shiv Sena party, in Mumbai. The swag also included chilli powder and follows weeks of national controversy over women’s safety set off by a public rape in Delhi.

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Young Egyptian protesters trade attacks with security forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo.

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A mortar shell, launched by the Syrain government, sits unexploded in a suburb of Damascus as clashes with pro-democracy rebels continue.

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Members of the National Police photograph the scene as the Panamanian government incinerates about 1.1 million pounds of confiscated narcotics.

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A worker stands by as crews rescue an upended, 950-ton excavator following an accident at an open-pit coal mine near Deutzen, Germany. The monstrous machine has been on its side since tipping last summer.

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A long-exposure photo captures Maxime Laheurte of France as he soars through a run at the Nordic Combined FIS World Cup in Klingenthal, Germany.

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An Indian woman cries into her phone amid the rubble of a fire-gutted shanty town in Mumbai. The fire killed at least six people.

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An Indian Muslim boy totes a religious flag in a procession marking the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed in Mumbai.

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Water drips from icicles formed along the Oude Gracht canal in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea leaps through the air during the funk-rockers’ perfomance at the Big Day Out festival in Gold Coast, Australia.

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Decked out Burkina Faso fans cheer their side on against Nigeria at the African Cup of Nations in Nelspruit, South Africa.

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Afghans inspect what’s left of a traffic police headquarters in Kabul that was raided by the Taliban. The raid left three cops and at least five insurgents dead.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel pauses with a frown as she speaks to the press after her party’s weekly executive meeting in Berlin. Merkel is preparing her run for a third term, but her Christian Democratic Union suffered losses in local elections.

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A train chugs through snowy fields near Manchester, England.

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South Korean soldiers huddle in position during drills in Seoul held to mark the anniversary of the Blue House Raid, an unsuccessful attempt by the North to assassinate then-President Park Chung-hee in 1968.

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Chinese workers walk through the financial district of Pudong on a hazy day in Shanghai, as Beijing is set to unveil new rules governing how China’s capital reacts to air pollution, according to state reports.

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Protesters taunt police with a banner depicting former Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko near the presidential administration building in Kiev. Already jailed for abusing her office, Tymoshenki now faces accusations she ordered a business rival killed 16 years ago.

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A woman watches as her six-year-old daughter fires off a small rifle along a mountain range in Buckeye, Arizona.

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Dutch Royal Navy crew members of the vessel Hr. Ms. De Ruyter bid farewell to loved ones at Den Helder harbor before shipping out to Somalia to join NATO’s anti-piracy Ocean Shield operation.

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A family flees the Newell’s Old Boys club in Rosario, Argentina, where soccer fans hurled rocks at the opposing Rosario Central squad’s bus and clashed with police, forcing the match to be suspended.

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Official Super Bowl game balls go through the shaping and filling process at the Wilson Sporting Goods plant in Ada, Ohio, in preparation for the Feb. 3 clash between Baltimore and San Francisco.

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A tiger rolls in the around in the snow at its Buffalo Zoo enclosure.

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A television journalist reports as firefighters try to control a blaze at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Australian artist Ewen Coates sets up his installation — entitled “Overground” — at the Art Stage Singapore exhibition. The work consists of 12 bronze heads wearing balaclava. Inside each is a small, internally lit diorama depicting a particular scene.

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A Syrian rebel sniper takes aim from his perch inside a house during heavy fighting with government forces in the Mleha suburb of Damascus.

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A Pakistani woman steps through recyclable plastic bags left drying in the sun in Lahore.

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A dog minds its own business as its owner fills out a ballot for the Israeli parliamentary election at a Tel Aviv polling station.

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An Indian holy man performs evening prayers on the bank of the Sangam during the Maha Kumbh Mela, which will bring up to 100 million worshippers to Allahabad over the next 55 days.

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Assailants attack a gay-rights activist during a protest outside the Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, in Moscow, where a first reading is due on a “homosexual propaganda” law.

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A sunset backdrops a traditional pavilion in Beijing on a heavily hazy day. The Chinese capital’s mayor unveiled measures to ease the chronic problem that has triggered growing public anger.

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The sun highlights a section of tennis fans at Rod Laver Arena during the Australian Open in Melbourne.

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Elkhart, Ind., groundskeeper Kevin Miller gets covered in snow as he drives a Zamboni over the ice at the Nibco Ice and Water Park.

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A train sits beneath the carriage of another crash at a station in Alfarelos, Portugal. Emergency services say the high-speed intercity train rear-ended a local train waiting to enter the station.

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Serena Williams celebrates a point during what would turn out to be a quarterfinal loss to Sloane Stephens at the Australian Open.

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With help from some slightly shorter colleagues, a model presents a creation by French designer Jean Paul Gaultier Spring-Summer 2013 show in Paris.

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A miner showers after his shift in Hungary’s last remaining deep-cast coal mine at Markushegy. The state won EU approval for a $191M grant to shut down the mine.

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Chicago fire department Lieutenant Charley De Jesus steps carefully around an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire Tuesday night in Chicago. The blaze brought a third of the city’s firefighters to the scene.

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Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall speaks to (curiouisly barricaded) schoolchildren during a visit to St Mary’s School in London.

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Huskies train in the forests near Feshiebridge, Scotland, ahead of the Siberian Husky Club Aviemore Sled Dog Rally at Loch Morlich, the biggest event in the British sled dog racing calendar.

Palestinian women and children as the funeral procession of Lubna Hanash passes in Bethlehem. Hanash, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman, was shot by Israeli soldiers near Hebron, Palestinian medics said.

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An Orthodox priest lays a blessing on an arsenal about to be handed out to new Belarussian recruits at a military swearing-in ceremony in Minsk.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pounds her fists while responding to questioning on the September attacks in Benghazi, Libya, at a Capitol Hill hearing.

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A tractor carries tourists on a skating tour past a patch of bad ice in Wanneperveen, Netherlands. Some 15,000 participated in the first of the tours held on natural ice, but the bad stretch forced organizers to call it off.

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A Bangladeshi man cries as he talks about his wife and daughter, killed in the Tazreen factory fire in Dhaka two months ago.

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Ghana supporters get psyched for their team’s Africa Cup of Nations match against Mali in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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Florence Cassez, left, gets a kiss from her mother Charlotte after landing at France’s Roissy airport. Cassez spent seven years in a Mexican prison on kidnapping charges before being cleared and released.

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A masked protestor carries an injured boy away from clashes between the protesters and riot police.

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A woman sips coffee in front of a frost-covered shop window in the sub-zero cold of Portland, Maine.

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Ostriches crowd together for warmth in their open-air cage at a farm in the Belarussian village of Kozishche.

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A Syrian rebel surveys the crumbling Arabeen neighborhood of Damascus, destroyed in government airstrikes.

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American Matt Gone shows off his ink at the opening of the Expotattoo Venezuela convention in Caracas.